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Image Taken on 10 Jan 2008 at 01:44    Image of day on 10 Feb 2008

Just love the horizontal streak shadows of the leading primary feathers across the trailing primaries.


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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2006 at 05:25    Image of day on 12 Jun 2006

Robin with a huge worm just after dawn. Well the saying goes 'the early bird catches the worm'.


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Image Taken on 18 Apr 2008 at 17:46    Image of day on 05 May 2008

When did your partner last offer you a nice slimy worm as a token of love?


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Image of day on 28 Dec 2005

The Robin found his Christmas day afternoon snack by way of this unlucky worm. We really don't know how they find worms in the impacted sanded soil at the main feeding station, but we see a robin with a worm here a couple of times a year.


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Image Taken on 18 May 2011 at 05:53    Image of day on 12 Jun 2011

A couple of young Robins - always demanding more food.


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Image Taken on 04 Apr 2011 at 16:53    Image of day on 06 May 2011

A little domestic tranquility on the tree-stump top.


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Image Taken on 18 Mar 2008 at 06:26    Image of day on 08 Apr 2008

The robins continue to display and generally show-off. Love the eye-to-eye contact.


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Image Taken on 02 Feb 2008 at 07:10    Image of day on 29 Feb 2008

Most pics of robins now include a pair. Perhaps, as it is leap year day, you might think the girl robin is 'popping the question' :-)


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Image Taken on 17 Jan 2008 at 15:25    Image of day on 17 Feb 2008

We have this theory - if you see 2 robins together and they are not fighting then they are 'in love'. Spring must be on the way.


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Image Taken on 27 Jan 2007 at 15:12    Image of day on 08 Feb 2007

Aha! 2 robins not locked in mortal combat - they must be courting.


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Image of day on 12 Jan 2006

From exactly this date last year at the main feeding site this single exposure contained 2 Robins, 2 Great Tits & a Blue Tit. All doing well again this year so far.


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Image of day on 09 Feb 2005

This has to be a 'pair' of robins. In our experience if you see two robins that are not fighting then they are deeply in love!


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Image Taken on 03 Mar 2010 at 17:35    Image of day on 01 Apr 2010

The imminence of Spring has just about everything pairing up. This is obviously a pair of robins - they can see each other and are not fighting!


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Image Taken on 27 Feb 2011 at 06:26    Image of day on 03 Apr 2011

This pairing has turned up many times over about a week and must be some of courtship behaviour. In most cases the bird landing here (we assume the male) is already standing on the log with the other (we assume a submissive female) points beak upward without hint of threat.


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Image Taken on 13 May 2009 at 18:58    Image of day on 11 Jun 2009

One of those moments that the patience of an automatic camera may capture for you. They are perhaps a foot off the ground.


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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2009 at 06:14    Image of day on 29 Sep 2009

Robins are very territorial, but we didn't see any evidence of this being more than a brief squabble.


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Image Taken on 20 Feb 2011 at 07:53    Image of day on 03 Apr 2011

Its Spring, and there are Robins everywhere, usually spotted in pairs rather than singletons. Out of breeding season robins are rarely seen together except when fighting!


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Image Taken on 15 Jul 2011 at 17:59    Image of day on 27 Aug 2011

One wild rose is smothered in Robins Pincushion - an insect gall. One at the top of the stem (above this framing) is 6cm in diameter, but these are more typical on this plant at 2 to 3 cm.


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Image Taken on 22 Apr 2009 at 20:09    Image of day on 19 May 2009

No idea what is going on here, but couldn't resist showing you.
On the Right hand bird notice the two raised Alulae (the clearest is the spike on the wing immediately above the eye) we have never noticed this before on any small bird. They are rather more obvious on this Kestrel (click to view)) and form part of the anti-stalling aerodynamics of the magic of bird wings.


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Image Taken on 18 Jul 2009 at 20:13    Image of day on 27 Aug 2009

An absolute fantasie illustrating what is probably at least 2 robin families visiting site 2. The left bird has been flipped and merged to make this illustration of feather development.


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